SCHEMA MAPPING

Our presentation for this evening (13 October) is on Schema Mapping.
Here are the topics that would be covered as a part of our presentation:

1. Discuss the scenario in the handout
2. Introduction to Schema and Schema Mapping
3. Need for Schema Mapping. Its significance and applications
4. Heterogeneous Databases
   * Challenges faced - Syntactic Heterogeneity, Structural Heterogeneity, Semantic Heterogeneity
5. Schema matching approaches and classification - Schema based, Linguistic based, Instance based
6. Schema Mapping tools

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_matching
http://www.deg.byu.edu/presentations/SpResConf04/SpResConf04.yihong.ppt
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/km/mapping/index.html
http://www.cse.uconn.edu/neds/slides/jan-23-04.ppt
https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/caCORE/Solutions+for+caBIG+Interoperability+using+Semantic+Annotations+for+WSDL
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/alon/files/acmq.pdf
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-0407saracco/fig2.gif

(Papers)

• Ontology Based Integration of Information – A Survey of Existing Approaches by H.Wache, T. V¨ogele, U. Visser, H. Stuckenschmidt, G. Schuster, H. Neumann and S. H¨ubner
• Changing Focus on Interoperability in Information Systems: From System, Syntax, Structure to Semantics by Amit P. Sheth
• Semantic-Integration Research in the Database Community – A Brief Survey by AnHai Doan and Alon Y. Halevy
• A survey of approaches to automatic schema matching by Erhard Rahm and Philip A. Bernstein
• Automatic Direct and Indirect Schema Mapping: Experiences and Lessons Learned by David W. Embley, Li Xu, Yihong Ding
• Data Integration: Schema Mapping by Jan Chomicki
• Grid Data Integration based on Schema-mapping by Carmela Comito and Domenico Talia
• Semantic Integration: A Survey Of Ontology-Based Approaches by Natalya F. Noy
• Schema Mapping and Data Integration with Clio by Barbara Eckman, Mauricio Hernández, Howard Ho, Felix Naumann, Lucian Popa